The touristification of a conflict zone: The case of Bil’in

Belhassen, Yaniv; Uriely, Natan; Assor, Ortal

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2014.09.007

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“…Projections indicate that this growth will continue in the future, reaching 1800 million international arrivals by 2030 [2]. It is clear that tourism plays a prominent role in the economy of many regions and countries, generating positive impacts, but it is also evident that, more recently, the focus has been on its negative impacts, especially as a consequence of massification, the congestion of public space, the increasing housing rentals, the rise in CO 2 emissions, and the degradation of certain natural and heritage resources [3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

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Length of Stay and Sustainability: Evidence from the Schist Villages Network (SVN) in Portugal

2020

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There is evidence that increasing the Length of Stay (LOS) contributes to the sustainability of destinations. This paper analyzes LOS determinants in the Schist Villages Network (SVN) in Portugal, where almost half of the visitors are same-day visitors. Given that these visitors generate more environmental impacts, an increase in LOS would help guide tourism towards more sustainable standards. The analysis was performed using several Heckman selection models. Unlike the findings of previous studies, LOS depended mainly on the characteristics of the trip and the destination—not on visitor profile—and can therefore be considered a highly specific form of tourism. Comparatively, motivations associated with rest, residents’ hospitality, and local produce consumption encourage visitors to extend their stay, thereby boosting tourism sustainability. The SVN is also shown to have various cultural and heritage resources that are currently highly valued. However, the leisure offer is insufficient to increase LOS. Furthermore, conventional advertising was not shown to be effective in raising LOS compared with word-of-mouth (WOM). The paper concludes that measures should be adopted to increase the local produce offer, retain population, maintain traditional village activities, and attract visitors from nearby regions. These actions could increase overnight stays and LOS, contributing to more sustainable development.

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Length of Stay and Sustainability: Evidence from the Schist Villages Network (SVN) in Portugal

2020

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“…Those tourists reported low to moderate perceived risk about terrorism, and used different rationalizations to reduce their concerns. Bellhassen, Uriely and Assor () even suggested that a conflict zone where the risks are relatively minor can attract international tourists by providing certain thrills within a “protected bubble”. Also Chew and Jahari () found that many of the tourists who had visited Japan prior to the Fukushima disaster of 2011 had intentions to revisit.…”

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Flux and permanence of risk perceptions: Tourists' perception of the relative and absolute risk for various destinations

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Larsen

2016

Scandinavian J Psychology

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The present investigation is a cross‐sectional, multi‐national, quantitative, and quasi‐experimental comparison of tourists’ risk perceptions regarding different destinations throughout the past decade. Over 10,000 tourists to Norway from 89 different countries filled in a questionnaire rating the perceived risk for various destinations. Data were collected during 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015 and allow for a comparison of perceived risk across time, place and nationality. Results show that while absolute risk judgments for different destinations fluctuate somewhat over the years, relative risk judgments remain constant. Findings also reveal a “home‐is‐safer‐then‐abroad‐bias” with tourists consistently perceiving their home country among the safest destinations. The current investigation is rare because it looks at more than one destination at a time. Insights gained from the present findings diverge from what would have been concluded from employing case studies, that is, looking at one destination at a time.

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“…10 Personal interview with MP, Berlin, June 2015. The question of the authenticity of experience that journeys to conflict zones provide is also discussed in the literature on political tourism (see Belhassen et al 2014;Clarke 2000).…”

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Journeys to the limits of first-hand knowledge: politicians’ on-site visits in zones of conflict and intervention

Guevara¹

2016

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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This article explores the practice and political significance of politicians' journeys to conflict zones. It focuses on the German example looking at field trips to theatres of international intervention as a way of first-hand knowing in policymaking. Paying tribute to Lisa Smirl and her thought-provoking work on humanitarian spaces, objects and imaginaries and on liminality in aid worker biographies, two connected arguments are developed. First, through the exploration of the routinised practices of politicians' field trips I show how these journeys not only remain confined to the 'auxiliary space' of aid/intervention, but that it is furthermore a staged reality of this auxiliary space that most politicians experience on their journeys. Based on this, I then ask, second, what politicians actually do experience on their journeys and how their experiences relate to their policy knowledge about conflict and intervention. I show that political field trips enable sensory/affectual, liminoid and liminal 2 experiences, which have functions such as authority accumulation, agenda setting, community building, and civilisation in domestic politics, while at the same time reinforcing, in most cases, pre-existing conflict and intervention imaginaries.

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The touristification of a conflict zone: The case of Bil’in

Cited by 46 publications

References 38 publications

Length of Stay and Sustainability: Evidence from the Schist Villages Network (SVN) in Portugal

Length of Stay and Sustainability: Evidence from the Schist Villages Network (SVN) in Portugal

Flux and permanence of risk perceptions: Tourists' perception of the relative and absolute risk for various destinations

Journeys to the limits of first-hand knowledge: politicians’ on-site visits in zones of conflict and intervention

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